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We have some news to share: The Counter is being brought back as a vertical within @grist, a nonprofit media organization that has been on the climate beat for 25 years.

The details here: https://t.co/CjmgOyodDS

[Roots of Change @RootsofChange]

California grants its livestock industry huge subsidies to capture methane before it reaches the air. Some believe the state must reconsider how it calculates carbon intensities for dairy digester fuels. @TheCounter https://t.co/GhGjZrQV0k

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Even with the best intentions, restaurant mentorship programs have an uncanny ability to replicate existing industry problems. Without deliberate adjustments, they tend to reinforce power imbalances between established, senior mentors and junior mentees. https://t.co/bt6Z6gtSai

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Even with the best intentions, restaurant mentorship programs have an uncanny ability to replicate existing industry problems. Without deliberate adjustments, they tend to reinforce power imbalances between established, senior mentors and junior mentees. https://t.co/bt6Z6gtSai

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@kevintkrueger @ACShilton Apologies, Kevin, it was an automated email. We're working to disable it.

[Marcelo Mena-Carrasco 🚲♻️ 🇨🇱 @marcelomena]

https://t.co/LxbU2l9pzY Digesters only solve a small part of the methane emissions in the livestock and dairy sector, and only in a small part of production practices. We require other measures that target emissions more directly, for a wider group of settings.

[Rebekah Denn @RebekahDenn]

"Your car is killing coho salmon." Painful to see the final @thecounter newsletter, as full of good work as ever. https://t.co/Qokyy1MMvx

[mano-Y-ola @mano_y_ola]

Via @TheCounter: After a chain grocer closes down, they sometimes use lease provisions called "restrictive covenants" to ensure no supermarket or other food business can ever occupy the space. These covenants help create food deserts. From @LelaNargi: https://t.co/7QnSuzSgtS

[Sentient @Sentient_Media]

“I felt there was no one I could turn to.”

Research suggests #racism should be treated as a matter of public #health. But the unique stressors faced by Black farmers remain poorly understood. @imsafiyacharles reports via @TheCounter:
https://t.co/ZmIgGHXHzM

[Fabio Parasecoli @FParasecoli]

American dining is an oligopoly dominated by chains | The Counter https://t.co/dmXxb79YWs @thecounter

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How California climate regulators are distorting progress on greenhouse gas emission reductions while allowing polluters to yield lucrative profits: https://t.co/uPY2g0NgWe

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How California climate regulators are distorting progress on greenhouse gas emission reductions while allowing polluters to yield lucrative profits: https://t.co/uPY2g0NgWe

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SB 464 is unlikely to move this year, but the groups behind #Food4All will continue to work on expanding California’s social safety net to include all undocumented immigrants.

Read more from @TheTinaVasquez: https://t.co/6R8a3CCd7p

[BC Salmon Farmers @BCSalmonFarmers]

Via @TheCounter: Your car is killing coho salmon

Just over a year ago, scientists in Washington identified 6PPD-quinone, which is used to weatherize car tires, as a chemical that is acutely toxic to coho salmon.

READ: https://t.co/HhtErVYdfm

[The Counter @TheCounter]

Today is the Counter's last official day of operations, but we'll continue to showcase some of our final stories here through the end of next week.

(In case you missed the news: https://t.co/19qziY79nR)

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California is double-counting millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the dairy sector, distorting its progress on climate change. New investigation, in partnership with @grist: https://t.co/uPY2g0NgWe

[The Counter @TheCounter]

Today is the Counter's last official day of operations, but we'll continue to showcase some of our final stories here through the end of next week.

(In case you missed the news: https://t.co/19qziY79nR)